Connecting Globally

Georgetown fosters global perspective

Georgetown provides unique opportunities for students to gain a heightened awareness and understanding of the world, and to find their place within in it. Faculty engage issues of global significance, world leaders frequent campus and contribute to dialogue on current affairs, and activities including study abroad, international community-based learning and social justice outreach promote intercultural understanding.

Georgetown co-sponsors a four-day workshop with the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See and the U.S. Department of State that examines ways faith-based organizations might address the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance.

A School of Foreign Service student, a recent neurobiology graduate and an interdisciplinary neuroscience Ph.D. candidate become Georgetown's most recent Marshall scholars who will study for the next two years in the United Kingdom.

A study by a Georgetown economics professor and a colleague at MIT shows that expanding a mobile money system in Kenya helped bring hundreds of thousands of households out of poverty, especially those headed by women.

Leaders from top global companies mentor Executive MBA students at McDonough School of Business through a new program aimed at developing and advancing students' leadership capabilities while enriching their support and advisory networks.

Faculty and students from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service share thoughts on the implications and possibilities of a Trump Administration as it relates to the economy, foreign affairs and immigration.

Georgetown's Institute of International Economic Law convenes a panel of European ambassadors to talk about the drivers behind the United Kingdom's decision to withdraw from the European Union and the impact thus far.